Here is the example of "Displaced Design-Strike Doubling" that
was shown in Coin World

Three columns back
we started this series (on forms of doubling that mimic doubled dies and
repunching) with an examination of a fairly deceptive form of “Strike Doubling”
that occurs when a design element is virtually split in half (thereby creating a
doubled effect) as a portion of it is pushed down a sharp incline by
die-bounce. In that example we showed the effects of Strike Doubling on the
designer’s initials, FG, that were pushed down the slope of the truncation of
Kennedy’s profile on a 1968-S proof half dollar.

In this column we
look at another deceptive form of “Strike Doubling” that occurs when designer’s
initials (or other design elements) isolated in the field of a coin in the close
proximity to a larger design, are impressed into the larger design via
die-bounce.

To review, Strike
Doubling is one of the most common forms of doubling found on coins and is
generally accepted to be a form of damage (to the coin) that occurs a split
second after the strike. It is what others may refer to as “Machine Doubling,”
“Mechanical Doubling,” “Shelf Doubling,” “Chatter” or a host of other terms used
to describe the same effects. While the terms may vary amongst specialists,
most agree that it is a very minor variation that occurs during the
manufacturing process, that it is not a die variety and is too common to quote
any extra value on. However, in the case of this column’s subject coin, not all
specialists feel this particular form should be without value.

Michael Westcott
sent in the 1992-P Jefferson nickel shown. The coin was first struck normally
and then “struck” again via die-bounce with high points of the die, i.e., field
areas, smashing into edges of design on the coin. In several areas about the
portrait we see the typical flattened edges of design that we are accustomed to
associating with Strike Doubling. Amongst them we see shelf-like doubling at
the base of Jefferson’s bust. Interestingly, the force of flattening out this
fairly wide shelf also raised a new set of Felix Schlag’s designer initials, FS,
up on the lip of the base of the bust just to the NW of the normal set of
initials. Generally, we associate Strike Doubling with the destruction of an
image, (via flattening), but in this case it has actually formed a new image by
raising it. This formation of an image independent the original gives
researchers reason to reexamine the long-held rule of thumb that Strike Doubling
adds no extra valued to a coin.

We sent images of
the coin highlighted here to error-variety specialists, Bill Fivaz and J.T.
Stanton (authors of The Cherrypickers’s Guide To Rare Die Varieties) and James
Wiles, and John Wexler (well known variety coin attributers). We asked whether
or not they felt this form of strike doubling should have value. Only Fivaz and
Wexler responded to the inquiry and suggested that such a variation should have
value. Fivaz suggested as least $25 for the one shown to which Wexler agreed.
I concur. What do you think?

Here is a second example of Displaced Design-Strike Doubling
that Westcott found